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quotes

"four legs good, two legs bad"-old major, napolean changes it to "four legs good, two legs better" 

"lets face it: our lives are misserable, labourious and short" - implying that humans treat them bad so they have short lives that make them unhappy and they have to work for minimal. 

"man serves the interest of no creature but himself" - the animals think that man only cares about themselfes and that they dont care about the animals when its the opposite. 

"man  is the only creature that produces without consuming" - the animals are saying that man uses the animals. 

"all men are enemies. all animals are comrades" - this quote shows how the animals dont trust man as they think that they are evil. 

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walking away- 

"a sunny day with leaves just turning" - pathetic fallacy. 

"like a satelite/ wrenched from its orbit" - simile 

'with that pathos of a half-fledged thing set free" - metaphor

rhyming scheme- AAA/AAA/AAA/AAA- repetitive 

eden rock- 

"they are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock" - a vague description shows that its an imagined scene, also eden is a biblical refrence showing that the place is peaceful and perfect. 

"in a sprigged drees drawn at the waist, ribbonin her straw hat" - the beautiful detail shows how precious his mum is to him. 

"the sky whitens as if lit by three suns" - symbolises  the 3 of them being reunited. 

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